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An Steegen, senior vice president of process technology at [getentity id="22217" e_name="Imec"], the Belgium-based R&D organization, sat down with Semiconductor Engineering to discuss the future of process technology and transistor trends all the way to 3nm.
SE: Some say the semiconductor industry is maturing. Yet we have more device types and options than ever before, right?
Steegen:... » read more

Chipmakers continue to scale the CMOS transistor to finer geometries, but the question is for how much longer. The current thinking is that the CMOS transistor could scale at least to the 3nm node in the 2021 timeframe. And then, CMOS could run out of gas, prompting the need for a new switch technology.
So what’s after the CMOS-based transistor? Carbon nanotubes and graphene get the most a... » read more